Actor Helen Morse reads from the story of Laylá and Majnūn as told in Nizami's Khamsa, translated by James Atkinson.

Acknowledgements

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond is based on an exhibition curated by Susan Scollay and Clare Williamson for the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. This presentation of the exhibition has been curated by Alasdair Watson, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library.